Landscaping in Ohio Township

Ohio Township sits on genuinely steep ground near Sewickley, and gradient is the first and largest fact about working here.

On this kind of hillside there is very little naturally level ground, so almost any outdoor space worth using has to be built. That puts retaining walls at the centre of nearly every project, with the patio or terrace as the thing that sits on top of the real work.

Water behaves accordingly. On a slope the problem frequently originates above your property line, which makes interception uphill of the house a far more reliable fix than trying to manage runoff once it has arrived at the foundation.

Access is the practical constraint. A number of properties here have driveways that will not take full-size plant, so the equipment gets sized to the site rather than the other way round — occasionally that means moving base material by hand to avoid tearing up a lawn we would then have to repair.